Example Sentences

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It underwent structural and compositional analysis using various techniques, including X-ray diffraction, Rietveld analysis, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, and selected-area electron diffraction.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Support can happen in many ways: beliefs can deductively entail one another, they can inductively entail one another, and they can cohere by explaining one another.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In other cases she inductively reasons the meaning of a word after noticing it in different contexts.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

Using a process called inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the device then identifies the shaving’s atomic makeup by the light it emits, like a tiny, dying supernova.

From The Verge • Jun. 25, 2018

This should be done inductively and in an investigative spirit.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph